This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.